Tag: Housing Executive
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Striking housing workers vote 99.5 percent on 93.5 percent turnout to reject inadequate NI Housing Executive pay offer
As industrial action by housing workers enters its twenty-third week without resolution, Unite demands Department for Communities intervention Thousands of social housing tenants are left without needed repair and maintenance work as a result of management intransigence Unite the union has written to the Chief Executive of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive Grainia Long after its…
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Tenants groups in Belfast and Craigavon challenge NIHE on impact of unresolved strike
Workers enter their fifteen week of strike action for improved pay as LRA-mediated talks are due to commence this week Striking housing workers at NIHE have linked up with tenants associations and residents groups across the three housing regions impacted by the ongoing industrial dispute which is now entering its fifteenth week. The pay dispute…
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Housing Executive board inaction in face of withdrawal of private contractors and ongoing housing workers strike is exacerbating social housing crisis
4,000 tenants left without needed housing improvements and almost 400 houses left empty as a result Unite the union welcomes the offer by newly appointed chair of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive Nicole Lappin to engage directly with the trade union. Ms Lappin spoke to striking workers in Craigavon today. Workers are on the thirteenth…
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Management suspend workers at Regina Coeli House and instruct vulnerable female residents to transfer to uncertain accommodation by taxi
Workers and residents maintain ‘work-in’ to save Northern Ireland’s only women-only hostel for homeless and vulnerable Unite launches of an online petition for public to show their support for staff and residents’ fight Unite members working at Regina Coeli House have received letters from management suspending them on grounds of alleged ‘serious breaches of the safety…